The latest from the App Service and Functions engineering teams

January/February 2017 App Service Update

Diagnose and solve problems

App Service has a new experience for Diagnose and solve problems. With this new UI we make it easier to distinguish between application issues (your code) and platform issues (App Service). We also provide quick solutions (Fix it!) tailored to the problems you might be experiencing.

The UI provides a view of the health of your application, health of the platform as well as traffic over the last 24 hours. If any availability issues are detected in that time window, they are listed below the graphs. You can drill down into more detail from there.

If the issue is currently ongoing we try to provide a custom solution specific to the issue we detected. This should point you in the right direction to fix your problem and help get your application back into a healthy state.

You can reach the new experience by clicking on the Diagnose and solve problems item in the general section of any Web, Mobile or API app.

GA for MySQL in App

The MySQL in-app feature enables running MySQL natively on the Azure App Service platform. While this feature is ideal for small applications running on a single instance, or for development scenarios, you will need a full fledged MySQL resource that you can manage and scale independently for any production scenario.

To ease the migration from your MySQL in App to an external MySQL database we have added Export functionality in the portal to make this a turnkey experience.